Miscellaneous factoid, for anyone who cares: Barack Obama was 7 years old and living in Jakarta, Indonesia in 1968 when Martin Luther King, Jr. and Robert Kennedy were assasssinated.
In 1968 I was in the 8th grade and living here in America. Anyone who actually witnessed the 1960s would not want to bring back the racial tensions of those times. I am afraid younger people are assuming that those years were somehow romantically intense. It was not fun, I guarantee you.
I remember the old Black Panthers. Now there's a "New" Black Panther Party. And you'll never guess... they condemn Whites and Jews, and they've endorsed Obama. On the Obama campaign website. Well, it was on the Obama campaign website. See Aaron Klein for more.
Maybe we should have paid more attention when Obama stopped wearing an American flag pin back in the fall. But everybody would have said we were making a mountain out of a molehill and would have cried out in support of him. Just like now.
On NBC, the Washington Post's Jonathan Capehart said the address was, "a very important gift the senator has given the country."NBC's own Chris Matthews said it was, “worthy of Abraham Lincoln" and "the best speech ever given on race in this country."
ABC's George Stephanopoulos said Obama's refusal to renounce his highly controversial pastor was, quote, "in many ways an act of honor."
And on CNN, Campbell Brown called the speech "striking" and "daring," asserting that Obama had, "walked the listener through a remarkable exploration of race from both sides of the color divide, from both sides of himself."
Posted by: Christian Prophet | Wednesday, 19 March 2008 at 08:40 PM
Posted by: Christian Prophet | Wednesday, 19 March 2008 at 08:41 PM